My one and only sports question

Katybug

Katybug

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Charlotte, NC
Guys, tell me....can't you buy a decent football team? There is BIG banking money here in Charlotte, but our Carolina Panthers team is beyond sad. We made it to the Super Bowl several years ago, but that had to be a fluke. Other than that, it has been pathetic every other season and another loss today. Doesn't money buy the players that can win more than a few games...and it's not lack of support as this is huge football territory. I have no understanding of football whatsoever, but thought that money was the name of the game in getting the best players.
 

They clamped a 'salary cap' on the clubs down here to stop teams with wealthy backers buying all the best players and running the risk of losing the wider fan base overall.
They're allocated a set amount to buy players to each team and that's it. They get fined and playing points taken off them if they get caught exceeding it by 'gifting' players off the books.
I have a distant rel who was a player for a team who'd better remain nameless, who was put on the list of 'directors' of a company that sold boats so the club could buy him a new one every year or so but it would show up as a director's perk, not a football player's one. He at least never got caught, but plenty have.
It works pretty well, and ensures a more equal competition as each club team can only afford a couple of really top line players each, and have to pad the team out with cheaper ones to stay under the cap.

Team Loyalty is a term I remember hearing somewhere long ago but it seems to have gone out of general use.
 
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Pappy said:
Tony Romo of the Dallas Cowboys just signed a 100 million contract. Keep paying those high price tickets people. Is any one person worth that much?
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Don't see much of a cap on that deal....whew!!! The Joe Namath of today would be better than what we have!:(
 
Diwundrin said:
They clamped a 'salary cap' on the clubs down here to stop teams with wealthy backers buying all the best players and running the risk of losing the wider fan base overall.
They're allocated a set amount to buy players to each team and that's it. They get fined and playing points taken off them if they get caught exceeding it by 'gifting' players off the books.
I have a distant rel who was a player for a team who'd better remain nameless, who was put on the list of 'directors' of a company that sold boats so the club could buy him a new one every year or so but it would show up as a director's perk, not a football player's one. He at least never got caught, but plenty have.
It works pretty well, and ensures a more equal competition as each club team can only afford a couple of really top line players each, and have to pad the team out with cheaper ones to stay under the cap.

Team Loyalty is a term I remember hearing somewhere long ago but it seems to have gone out of general use.
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Thx for the good info, but then the deal Tony Romo signed makes it seem there isn't a cap over here.
 
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